Port Republic, Maryland.
Typical home $501,982 (+1.9% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,290 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,517 +2%
- $492,464$501,982 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,312 +16%
- $432,669$501,982 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Port Republic$2,635
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Port Republic, MD rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Port Republic, Calvert County, Maryland
The Census does not count Port Republic on its own, so the figures here are Calvert County's. Half the county's households earn more than $133,922 a year and half less; 4% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 87% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Calvert County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calvert County work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Port Republic is a small town in Calvert County, Maryland, on the western side of the Chesapeake Bay region. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are middle-aged on average, with few families living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and bring some snow, summers are warm, and rain falls often through the year.
Work. Across Calvert County, the unemployment rate is lower than it was a year before, though job numbers dipped slightly last year. Many residents work in schools, hospitals, government, professional services and the building trades. A good number of adults hold a degree, and commutes are longer than in much of the country.
Things to do. The Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Sanctuary is in or beside town, and its protected swamp is a quiet place for walking. Calvert Cliffs State Park is a short drive away, a protected area along the bay known for its cliffs. Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum, also a short drive away, is a museum focused on the area's history and archaeology.
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- 33,465households
- 40.8median age
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Calvert County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calvert County had 22,528 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 15 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mechanicsville Northeast weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calvert County
- Calvert County Public SchoolsSchool district2,220FTE
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear800
- Calvert Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital757FTE
- Chesapeake Technology InternationalApplications software programming services, custom computer218
- Asbury SolomonsRetirement communities, continuing care194
- Cove Point LNG (2)Pipeline terminal facilities, independently operated184
- WalmartDiscount department stores173
- Calvert Internal MedicineInternists' offices168
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,463 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Calvert County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Calvert County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Port Republic home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Port Republic$501,982
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Port Republic listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Port Republic16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Port Republic4
Zip codes with a Port Republic address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Port Republic — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.